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"The Economist?s Guide to Crime Busting"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post comes from the title of this article appearing in the Winter 2011 issue of The Wilson Quarterly.  The issue has a series of article on mass incarceration with this lead-in: "Seven million Americans are in prison or on probation or parole. Crime is down, but state prison budgets have ballooned. A new war on crime must focus on reducing repeat offenses by ex-inmates and steering more young people away from crime."   The folks at The Crime Report have made the article linked above available via this post where they summarize the article's three chief innovative ideas: " raise the minimum age at which adolescents can legally leave school, encourage more 'business improvement districts,' and increase taxes on alcoholic beverages...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 03, 2011 (boomark / email).